Security Advisory

CVE-2023-5632

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

In Eclipse Mosquito before and including 2.0.5, establishing a connection to the mosquitto server without sending data causes the EPOLLOUT event to be added, which results excessive CPU consumption. This could be used by a malicious actor to perform denial of service type attack. This issue is fixed in 2.0.6
Published Date October 18, 2023
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory